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Mon 06 Jun 2007Cocaine worth €240m seized in SpainSpanish police said today they had intercepted a boat in the Atlantic today carrying around €240 million worth of cocaine.Spanish special agents working with US, Mexican and British intelligence learnt that traffickers were planning to land the 4 tonne haul from Venezuela in Galicia, northern Spain.